Taking pictures was too terrifying because there was security on each corner, but imagine a Mini Deathstar, jutting with artillery and Beowulf All-Terrain Vehicles, decorated by plasma TVs showcasing cyber threat intelligence analytics and a fighter jet cockpit demonstration.
Fighters from II.Lehrgeschwader 2 (Demonstration Wing 2) were also to form part of the escort.
"WE DON'T want the criminal army," chanted protesters at a recent demonstration in Aleppo, referring to the fighters of the Free Syrian Army.
The blow was a chilling demonstration of one-punch power by a fighter who had come up through seven weights since arriving in the business as a skinny Filipino teenager.
He joined anti-regime demonstrations early on and then became a fighter.
And although the United States has hit test targets in space before — including a satellite destroyed in 1985 in a demonstration of an antisatellite weapon launched from a fighter jet — the successful demonstrations have been relatively few and far between.
Cover: Sukhoi Su-35 multipurpose fighter jets of the Russian Falcons aerobatics team perform a demonstration flight at the International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2017 in Zhukovsky.
The first year of Hornet service saw No. 2 OCU, as the then-only RAAF operator, undertake demonstration flights around the country to unveil the new fighter to the Australian public.
Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said: "We see a continuous flow of weapons and fighters from Russia into eastern Ukraine, and it is a clear demonstration of continued Russian involvement in [its] destabilisation".
"It just confirms the fact that we see a continuous flow of weapons and fighters from Russia into eastern Ukraine and it is a clear demonstration of continued Russian involvement in the destabilization of eastern Ukraine," the NATO chief said.
With the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, the Blue Angels and their jets ceased demonstrations of aerobatic formation flying and formed the nucleus of Fighter Squadron 191 ("Satan's Kittens"), which served aboard the aircraft carrier USS Princeton.
